anglais > français | |
shower | |
1. n. Douche. | |
The shower needs to be cleaned. | |
I didn't have a chance to take a shower this morning. | |
2. n. (Météo) Averse ; giboulée. | |
Snow shower : chute de neige. | |
I love these light spring showers. | |
When the wall caved in, a shower of dust covered them. | |
The April showers : les giboulées de mars. | |
3. n. (Figuré) Pluie (de confettis, de coups,...). | |
4. n. (Jonglage) Douche. | |
5. n. (Étas-Unis, Canada) Célébration où l'on amène des cadeaux en l'honneur d'une future maman (baby shower) ou d'une future mariée (bridal shower) ; réception-cadeaux (Canada). | |
6. v. Se doucher. | |
I'm going to shower now. | |
7. v. (Figuré) ... | |
The bride's uncle showered them with gifts. | |
L'oncle de la mariée leur a offert une pluie de cadeaux. | |
anglais > anglais | |
shower | |
1. n. A brief fall of precipitation. | |
Today there will be frequent showers and some sunny spells. | |
2. n. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump. | |
3. n. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself. | |
I′m going to have a shower. (UK, Australia) | |
I′m going to take a shower. (especially US) | |
4. n. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower. | |
a shower of sparks; a meteor shower; a Gatorade shower | |
5. n. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts. | |
Would male strippers be appropriate for the divorce shower? | |
Her church group has planned an adoption shower. | |
6. n. A bridal shower. | |
The shower will be held at the home of the bridesmaid. | |
7. n. A baby shower. | |
Her friends are throwing her a shower after her mom leaves. | |
8. n. (obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict. | |
9. n. (chiefly Irish, UK, Australia, pejorative) A shower of shit. | |
10. n. (chiefly Irish, euphemistic, pejorative, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier | |
11. v. (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid). | |
12. v. To bathe using a shower. | |
13. v. To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance | |
14. v. (intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down. | |
15. n. One who shows. | |
16. n. some object or activity that is shown in a contest | |
Example: That calf is going to be a great shower at the fair this year | |
17. n. (slang) A man whose penis appears roughly full size both when flaccid and when erect. | |
français > anglais | |
douche | |
1. n-f. shower | |
2. n-f. (juggling) shower | |